AI Stocks Today (Dec. 24, 2025, 10:34 a.m. ET): Nvidia, Microsoft, Intel, Snowflake and ServiceNow in Focus as the S&P 500 Hits a Fresh Record
As of late morning on Wednesday, December 24, 2025, U.S. markets are trading through a holiday-thinned, shortened Christmas Eve session with one message dominating the tape: investors are back in “AI mode.” The S&P 500 pushed to a new intraday record, buoyed by renewed appetite for heavyweight AI and tech names and growing confidence that the Federal Reserve could deliver additional rate cuts in 2026—two catalysts that have repeatedly powered the AI-stock trade over the past three years. Reuters But beneath the headline index level, today’s AI-stock story is more nuanced than a simple “chips up, everything else follows” narrative.